Articles in question include 2 copper stills, 2 wash tubs, 2 cider press crates, 40 cider barrels, & other equipment.

Plaintiffs are sued the defendant for unlawful possession of 2 black mare mules, 1 one-horse wagon, 1 two-horse wagon, 1 jersey milk cow, 1 spotted milk cow, 2 jersey heifer calves, plow gear, tools, and crops, which were sold to him on credit, and has not been repaid. Property does not exceed $400 in value.

Enock Carter unlawfully possessed a 40 year-old Slave named Hannah, who belonged to Catherine Pharris

Add. Defendants: H. & Ella Ziebart.

The dispute arose over the rightful ownership of a cow and calf.

John Capps leased a track of land from defendant for a term of 10 years. When defendant in possession of land & refused to turn it over, plaintiff sued for possession rights and cost of suit. Note hand drawn map of tract in dispute on page 43.

Additional defendants: M. M. Goad, admr. Of John A. Jones dec., Oscar Shaver, deputy sheriff of Morgan County, Mary A. Jones, and Izza Dillon

Plaintiff is appealing the charge that he possessed an "apparatus." Case file is incomplete; opinion only.

The plaintiff claimed that the defendants had in their possession on skiff with six oars, two axes, one pike pole, one pick hammer, one sack of cooking utensils and two cart hooks which said company has wrongfully seized.

Also includes State v. Henry Ashcroft. Ashcroft was convicted of carrying a pocket and belt pistol and revolver.

The union is sued McCoy, previous union treasurer, for $76, the balance in the treasury at the end of his term. McCoy is refusing to relinquish the money. The folder also contains two legal briefs.

Claim is that $10,000 worth of property, including two slaves, were wrongfully taken.

Dispute over possession of a mule.

Add. defendant: Alexander Campbell. The plaintiff is the surviving partner in a business where he contracted with a Trustee of the Methodist Church, namely the defendants to whom they furnished $150 worth of materials. The defendants took $75 each out of the funds for materials, for which the plaintiff took them to court to be prosecuted for acting in bad faith. The church house blew down in 1865 while housing a great deal of valuable material and the defendants unlawfully took possession of it.

Unlawful possesion of property which contains a large lot of cask staves.

Plaintiff Austin claimed that they had leased their 150 acres to Tipton for 1 year but that he refused to leave the property.

Kelly Smith was convicted and fined a fee of $50 for carrying a pistol

Complainant is the owner of a tract of land that belonged to her father, Thomas Hale, dec. The land was devised to her by her grandfather, James E. Hale's last will & testament. Defendant is unlawfully claiming some interest or right or posession of said land. Defendant is denying the plaintiff posssesion of the land.

Plaintiff's father, John Krider, also testifies. The suit concerns a piano worth $354.83 that the plaintiff claims the defendant has in his possession, but which legally belongs to her; defendant claims he bought it honestly at an estate sale. The plaintiff seems willing to settle either for the return of the piano or the payment of $354.83. No cause of action is actually listed in the record.

Millie Garvin is disputing a writ of possession that was presented to her to force her off of her land. She states that she knew nothing of a previous case in which her land was to be sold.

Plaintiffs Nathan Honeycutt and D. M Simerly sued the defendants William Shell Jr., Robert B. Bradly, and J. B. Miller (Deputy Sheriff of Coates County) for failure to notify them of an issue with land/property taxes that resulted in their attempt to seize the property.

Defendants: Montgomery Bell, Jenkins Whiteside, Thomas Hill, John Catson, Patrick Darby. Plaintiffs: Robert Farquarton, William Park, John Nichol.